Does the pope live in Barbie's dream house?

10:39 AM,
Feb. 15, 2013

Written by

Blythe Newsome

Many of my most memorable conversations occur with my children around the dinner table. When the children were young, much of dinnertime was spent playing "here comes the airplane" with a baby or negotiating with a toddler to "please just take one more bite." Now that the children are all a little older, dinnertime actually consists of real discussions about newsworthy topics.

Last week was the perfect example. My daughter goes to John Paul II Catholic High School. The big news story for the day was the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and she was happy to share the things that she had learned in ...